Ludwig Janus

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Ludwig Janus (born August 21, 1939 ) is a German psychotherapist and psychoanalyst specializing in prenatal and perinatal psychology and medicine .

Life

Ludwig Janus studied psychology and medicine in Munich , Essen and Göttingen and completed his medical studies with a doctorate . The psychoanalytic training took place in Göttingen and Heidelberg . Janus has been working as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in his own practice since 1975, in Heidelberg until 2012 and since then in Dossenheim near Heidelberg.

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Janus assumes that prenatal and birth stress can have long-term effects on psychological development. Psychotherapeutic treatments are seen by him as processing these connections. Janus described a rich scientific tradition within psychoanalysis in his book The Psychoanalysis of Prenatal Lifetime and Birth (1989). In it he made extensive theoretical borrowings from the prenatal psychological theories of Lloyd deMause , who for his part had reconstructed prenatal psychological aspects in the theories of Sigmund Freud , Otto Rank , Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott .

Janus was President of the International Society for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine (ISPPM) from 1995 to 2005 . From 1989 to 2005 he organized the annual working meetings of this society as well as the international congresses that take place every three years.

The connection between psychology and history is one of Janus' most important fields of research. In 1992 he was one of the founders of the German Society for Psychohistorical Research , which was renamed the Society for Psychohistory and Political Psychology eV based in Heidelberg in 2008 . He advocates the right of women to self-determined pregnancy and childbirth, the promotion of the prenatal relationship through communication between mother and child and the postnatal relationship by promoting closeness between mother and child.

Janus is considered one of the most important representatives of modern pre- and perinatal psychology in Germany. He has published 26 books as sole author or editor and numerous individual publications in professional journals and books.

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Monographs

  • Psychoanalysis of prenatal lifetime and childbirth. Psychosozial, Giessen 2000 (1st edition 1989).
  • How the soul arises - our psychological life before and after birth. Mattes, Heidelberg 2011 (1st edition 1991).
  • The soul space of the unborn. Patmos, Düsseldorf 2000 (1st edition 1991).
  • Human history as a psychological development process. Mattes, Heidelberg, 2008.
  • Birth. Psychosocial, Giessen 2015.
  • Homo foetalis et sapiens: the interplay of the fetal experience with the primate instincts and the understanding as the core of human beings. Mattes, Heidelberg. 2018
  • From the cosmos to the earth - from myth to psychology. The history of philosophy as a reflection of the evolution of mentalities and relationships in life. Mattes, Heidelberg 2018.

Editorships

  • Mental experience before and during the birth. LinguaMed, Neu-Isenburg 1997 (ed. With S. Haibach)
  • That's why I have no face - children from unwanted pregnancies. Echter, Würzburg 2000 (edited with Helga Levend).
  • Art analysis: aesthetic experience and early life , Mattes, Heidelberg 2003 (ed. With Klaus Evertz )
  • Prenatal Psychology and Psychotherapy. Mattes, Heidelberg 2004.
  • Art as a cultural awareness of prenatal and birth memories. Mattes, Heidelberg 2008 (edited with Klaus Evertz).
  • Letters from the Ostrogoth King: Theodoric the Great. Mattes, Heidelberg 2010
  • Bonding begins before birth. Mattes, Heidelberg 2011 (ed. With Helga Levend).
  • The Prenatal Dimension in Psychotherapy. Mattes, Heidelberg 2013.
  • Textbook of Prenatal Psychology. Mattes, Heidelberg 2014 (edited with Klaus Evertz, Rupert Linder).
  • Prenatal Psychology 100 Years: A Journey in Decoding How Our Prenatal Experience Shapes Wo We Become. The International Journal of Prenatal & Life Sciences, Athens 2018 (ed. With TR Verny, A. Janov).
  • Co-editor of numerous volumes of the yearbook for psychohistorical research . Mattes, Heidelberg. 2000 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ludwig Janus | Birth Psychology. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Psychosozial-Verlag. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ See Ludwig Janus, 1993: Die Psychoanalyse der vorgeburtlichen Lebenszeit und der Geburt , 3rd edition (1st edition 1989), p. 259 ff. With reference to Lloyd deMause, 1981: The fetal origins of history. In: The Journal of Psychohistory , 9 (1), pp. 1-89; in German: Lloyd deMause: The Fetal Origins of History. In: Lloyd deMause: Basics of Psychohistory. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1989, pp. 230-349.
personal data
SURNAME Janus, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and physician
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1939